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This short game helps participants to learn each other's names while creating a high-energy, exciting atmosphere. Teams work to get their ball to the end of the line, while alternating passing overhead and between the legs.
Materials per team:
To do:
- Each team creates a line with participants standing one behind the other.
- Each participant introduces him/herself to the person in front of and behind them.
- The first person in line receives a soft ball. The object of the game is to pass the ball to the end of the line, alternating passing over head and between the legs.
- When the ball reaches the last person he/she brings it to the front of the line and begins again.
- The race is over when the original first person has returned to the front of the line.
- After the race has finished, ask participants to share their ideas of what strategies helped them and what hindered them. (For example, they might say that saying the person's name behind them, helped the ball move faster from one person to another because it alerted them that the ball was coming.)
- Encourage participants to try again, keeping in mind the winning strategies they shared. You could change teams, mixing parents and kids or remain the same.
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